Tourists still visit Oslob, south Cebu

Dominic D. Yasay 11/06/2016

Tourists continue to arrive in towns of Oslob and Santander in southern Cebu despite the US Embassy advisory warning American citizens to avoid the southern part of Cebu for the supposed presence of terrorist groups with plans…

Cebu braces for cancelled tours over US travel warning; none so far

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/04/2016

Tour operators in Cebu are bracing for the cancellation of reservations for tour packages in the southern part of the province following the travel advisory by the US Embassy in the Philippines informing its citizens to avoid…

TERROR THREATS IN THE SOUTH?

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Doris C. Bongcac, Nestle L. Semilla, Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/03/2016

US Embassy alerts Americans of kidnap threats in southern Cebu Cebu officials were caught by surprise by the advisory of the United States Embassy in Manila to its citizens to avoid going to southern Cebu to avoid…

Avoid going to southern Cebu, Americans urged

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Doris C. Bongcac 11/03/2016

CEBU CITY–The US Embassy in Manila has advised its citizens to avoid going to southern Cebu and avoid the risk of being kidnapped. The advisory, titled “Security message for U.S. Citizens: Risk of Kidnapping in Southern Cebu”…

Duterte’s declaration

Editorial 10/24/2016

By this time, much has been said about President Rodrigo Duterte’s provocative statement about the Philippines breaking its military and economic ties with the US in a speech before Chinese officials during his visit in China last…

Rody to ask for coffee cop who rammed protesters

10/23/2016

Davao City — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday said he would invite for coffee the police officer who rammed into Wednesday’s protest line outside the US Embassy in Manila to ask him why he did it. “I…

Better lukewarm than absent

Rina Jimenez-David 10/21/2016

For a while there, it looked like activists and political protesters were happy playing footsies with the police and military. Where normally activists, many of them from the Left, would be the first to raise a howl…

Poe seeks Senate probe of the US embassy dispersal

Inquirer.net 10/21/2016

Senator Grace Poe has filed a resolution seeking a Senate investigation into the violent dispersal and “ruthless plowing” of protesters outside the US Embassy in Manila on Wednesday. In Senate Resolution No. 210, Poe urged the Senate…

Digong told: Charge MPD cops

Morexette Erram 10/20/2016

At least 100 farmers and militant groups in Cebu are calling on President Rodrigo Duterte to file charges against police officials who were involved in the violent dispersal last Wednesday of protesters in front of the US…

Several Cebu farmers condemn violent dispersal at US embassy

Morexette Erram 10/20/2016

SEVERAL farmers from the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)-Cebu gathered at Gorordo Avenue for a rally to condemn Wednesday’s dispersal of rallyists in front of the US Embassy in Manila where some of them suffered injuries. They…

Major aid effort to help typhoon victims

11/10/2013

THE US and other governments and international agencies are mounting a major relief effort to help victims of supertyphoon Yolanda. Brian Goldbeck, the acting ambassador at the US Embassy in Manila, issued a disaster declaration to provide…

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